LibertyCon 38: Full Schedule

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Reading: PGOH David M. Weber

Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)

Come hear Past Literary GOH David M. Weber read from his works.

Guests

David M. Weber

Author, Past LGoH

David Weber was born in Cleveland a long, long time ago and grew up in rural South Carolina. He was a bookworm from childhood, blessed with a father who collected autographed copies of every E. E. Smith hardcover and introduced him to Jack Williamson at the tender age of 10, and a... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Readings 1, Reading

2:00pm EDT

Reading: Lee Ellis and David (Brena) Bock

Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

David (Brena) Bock

Author

David Bock (also listed under the nom de plume Brena Bock) is a proud member of #TeamAndMore in several anthologies, including Space Force: Building the Legacy, Can't Go Home Again, and Saint's of Malta. Other stories are in the works along with a full length novel.

Lee Ellis

Author

Lee Ellis is a fantasy, sci-fi author with a background in filmmaking. He is most known for the Kildash series, as well as his horror short story, The River’s End, featured in Three Raven’s Trailer Park series. His other works include Exodus, God Blood, and The Devil’s Up T... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

2:00pm EDT

Reading: LGOH Charles E. Gannon

Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)

Come hear Literary GOH Charles E. Gannon read from his works.

Guests

Charles E. Gannon

Author, Past LGoH

Dr. Charles E. Gannon is best known for the Caine Riordan series of hard sf novels, which include multiple best-sellers, 4 finalists for the Nebula, 2 for the Dragon, and a Compton Crook winner. His epic fantasy series, The Vortex of Worlds, has also been an awards finalist and a... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Readings 1, Reading

3:00pm EDT

Reading: Jamie Ibson and Casey Moores

Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Jamie Ibson

Author

Jamie Ibson is a medically retired redcoat from north of the ice wall. He's edited six anthologies for Chris Kennedy Publishing and now two for Baen, and is one of Buff Orpington's two editors for bringing his memoirs to light for the first time.

Casey Moores

Author

Casey Moores was a USAF rescue/special ops C-130 pilot for over 17 years- airdropping, air refueling, and flying into tiny blacked-out dirt airstrips in bad places using night vision goggles. He’s been to those places and done those things with those people. Now he lives a quieter... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

4:00pm EDT

Reading: Devon Eriksen and Wil McCarthy

Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Wil McCarthy

Author

Engineer/Novelist/Journalist/Entrepreneur Wil McCarthy has been a professional writer since the mid-1980s. He is a former contributing editor for WIRED magazine and science columnist for the SyFy channel (previously SciFi channel), where his popular "Lab Notes" column ran from 1999 through 2009. A lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, he is a two-time winner of the AnLab award, and has been a finalist... Read More →

Devon Eriksen

Author

Devon Eriksen is a recent Chattanooga transplant, marksman, and life-long reader, with a particular fondness for classics from the golden age of science fiction. After growing up with images of the galaxy brought home by his JPL engineer father, he spent most of his career as a software... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

6:00pm EDT

Reading: Rick Cartwright and James P. Nettles

Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

James P. Nettles

Author

With a 30-plus-year career in consulting, Nettles has advised a diverse range of clients, from startups to Fortune 100 companies in financial technologies, media, entertainment, and green technologies. His work focuses on privacy, futurism, and disruptive technologies, exploring how... Read More →

Richard Cartwright

Author

Richard Cartwright was born and raised in Tennessee when he was not bouncing around the country and Canada in the sleeper of his parents tractor trailer rig that his father bought after retiring from the Navy to go into trucking.

His first reading lessons were road signs at four. His education was disrupted at five when he was forced to start spending the school year at school. After acquiring a note at six to allow him to check out "advanced " books from the library, he discovered Heinlein and never looked... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

7:00pm EDT

Reading: Michael Morton and Rob Howell

Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Michael Morton

Author

Michael Morton is a retired USAF space officer and now works for the Space Force as a civilian. He writes award-winning military sci-fi and fantasy and lives in Colorado Springs with his family. When he’s not writing, he enjoys camping and sampling the local adult beverages.

Rob Howell

Author, Publisher

Rob is the the creator of the Firehall Sagas, a contributor in Luke Gygax’s World of Okkorim, and an author in the Four Horsemen Universe. He writes epic fantasy, space opera, hard-boiled detective stories, alternate history, and whatever else seems fun.

His parents discovered b... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

7:00pm EDT

Reading: PGOH Robert Hampson

Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)

Come hear Past STEM GOH Robert Hampson read from his works.

Guests

Robert E. Hampson

Author, STEM, Past SGoH

Dr. Robert E. Hampson is a scientist and author whose passion for both neuroscience and storytelling drives his hard science fiction writing. With a Ph.D. in Physiology & Pharmacology, Dr. Hampson has spent over four decades researching how the brain encodes memory and developing... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Readings 1, Reading

8:00pm EDT

Reading: B.K. Gibson and Donald Mark Haynes

Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Mark Haynes

STEM, Dmarkhaynes Consulting

I’m a renaissance man trapped in a specialist’s body. My degree is in biology. That’s why I’m IT. I’ve worked as a software developer, with an elegant language for a more civilized age. I became a QA guy because breaking things is therapeutic. I became a process specialist... Read More →

BK Gibson

Author, Gaming

Ben Gibson is a writer, reviewer, and publisher of TTRPG adventures under Coldlight Press, releasing multiple award-winning modules for a decade. Along with his wife, Karen, he also writes fiction under the pen name B. K. Gibson, including short stories for Raconteur Press and Autarch... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

9:00pm EDT

Reading: Nathan Balyeat and

Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Nathan Balyeat

Author

A USMC veteran, Nathan has written the fantasy short stories in the "Fellblade" and "Powers of the Night" settings and is working on a science fiction novel based on the life of the William Marshal. He has a degree in history and his hobbies include weightlifting, martial arts, and... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

9:00pm EDT

Reading: Past Literary GOH John Ringo

Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)

Come hear Past Literary GOH John Ringo read from his works.

Guests

John Ringo

Author, Past LGoH

John Ringo's science fiction is action-oriented and abounding in characters to root for. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling military science fiction series The Posleen Wars, with over one million copies in print. Ringo is also the author of the far-future science... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Readings 1, Reading

10:00pm EDT

Reading: Aaron Haskins and James S. Aaron

Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

James S. Aaron

Author

James S. Aaron's most recent novel is Retreat Hell, coming soon from Aethon Books. He served in the U.S. Army as an operator and battery commander for the Patriot missile system. Now he wrangles chickens in Oregon. Learn more at jamesaaron.net.

Aaron Haskins

Author

A.C. Haskins is an economist, data geek, and combat veteran, and occasionally he writes stuff related to his many interests, including (but not limited to) ancient and medieval history, mythology, martial arts, guns, and theoretical economics. He lives in Michigan with his lovely... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

10:00pm EDT

Readings: Masters of Ceremonies Jacob Holo and H.P. Holo

Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)

Come hear Masters of Ceremonies Jacob Holo and H.P. Holo read from their works.

Guests

Jacob Holo

LibertyCon 38 Master of Ceremonies, Author

Jacob Holo has been a recreational geek since childhood, when he discovered Star Wars and Star Trek, and a professional geek since college, when he graduated from Youngstown State University with a degree in Electrical and Controls Engineering. He started writing when his parents... Read More →

H.P. Holo

LibertyCon 38 Master of Ceremonies, Author

H.P. Holo grew up in a family where it was dangerous to say, “I’m bored.” She’s also an incorrigible smart aleck. So when her parents told her to fix her boredom by reading a dictionary, she did. And then, just to be extra sassy, she began writing novels that required them... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

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